Artist: George Houston
Title: Brow On The Solway
Date: Not Known
Medium: Etching
Description:

One of a series of 12 prints by George Houston titled “Burns’ Country”. 12 etchings from a limited edition of 25. Commentaries by Neil Munro attached to reverse of frame:

Nith swept him finally to its estuary that strays at ebb through the great sands of the Solway. Broken in health, and doomed, he was at the end of June, 1796, advised to try sea-baths and the mineral well at Brow, ten miles from Dumfries. He spent some weeks there, gradually sinking, in what was surely the most melancholy sea resort to which an invalid could go, and yet in keeping with the tragic story of his life and with its end. On 18th July, he was taken home, and three days later died.

Gallery: North Ayrshire Museums Service
Location: Solway Coast

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